All in the Timing Fourteen Plays

Name: All in the Timing Fourteen Plays
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ISBN: 9780679759287

ISBN-10: 067975928X

ISBN-13: 9780679759287

Edition: N/A

Authors: David Ives

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The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud." At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this original paperback edition of Ives's plays includes "Sure Thing," "Words, Words,…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/8/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Sure Thing


Words, Words, Words


The Universal Language


Variations on the Death of Trotsky


The Philadelphia


Long Ago and Far Away


Foreplay, or The Art of the Fugue


Seven Menus


Mere Mortals


English Made Simple


A Singular Kinda Guy


Speed-the-Play


Ancient History


Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread